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9780415491396

Reclaiming Chinese Society: The New Social Activism

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415491396

  • ISBN10:

    0415491398

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2009-10-29
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Reclaiming Chinese Societyanalyses the mechanisms, processes and actors producing a wide spectrum of social and cultural changes in reform China. Contrary to most literature that emphasizes economic and political processes at the expense of Chinese society, this volume argues for the centrality of the social in understanding Chinese development. Each of the eleven chapters addresses one type of grassroots activism, covering feminist activism, civic environmentalism, religious revival, violence, film, media, intellectuals, housing, citizenship and deprivation. The wide-range of research styles used in this collection, including ethnography, regional comparison, quantitative and statistical analysis, interviews, textual and content analysis, offers students a methodologically rich vista to China Studies. Written by subject experts and covering all aspects of Chinese Society, this book offers an authoritative overview of Chinese society. It is an invaluable resource for courses on Chinese Society and culture and will be of interest to students and scholars in Chinese and Asian studies.

Author Biography

You-tien Hsing is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of California at Berkeley, USA. Ching Kwan Lee is Associate Professor of Sociology, UCLA, USA.

Table of Contents

List of contributorsp. xi
Social activism in China: agency and possibilityp. 1
Politics of (re)distributionp. 15
Urban housing mobilizationsp. 17
Workers and the quest for citizenshipp. 42
Barefoot lawyers and rural conflictsp. 64
Peasant resistance against nature reservesp. 83
Politics of recognitionp. 99
Feminist networksp. 101
Civic environmentalismp. 119
Religious revivalp. 140
Politics of representationp. 157
Film as cultural politicsp. 159
Bounded innovations in the mediap. 184
Inner city culture warsp. 207
Politics of cultural heritagep. 225
Indexp. 246
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